Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
相比之下《白老虎》都显得过于善良；这是一条深不见底的黑道，谁还记得少年最初的梦想是成为一名航空机械师？
真的很奇妙，我这个月看的电影《奇怪国家的数学家》也是讲教育做人，影片也讲道教育的腐败，黑暗，也讲到很多人学好数学是为了成绩和分数考个好学校，呼略了做人的道理和良知，所谓寒门学子在经历那次风波与北韩脱北者对碰，人生却如此大起大落，为了良知勇气，为了教育的纯洁，很愿意把这部电影分享给有孩子的家长和老师们看，注也很奇妙我这个月看教育的电影，这次电影分享会也分享教育方面的电影《超脱》，感谢上帝[玫瑰][玫瑰]
年纪大了容易感动些，亦师亦友亦亲的关系让我好感动。
工整的电影，数学为载体的温暖故事。教育是灵魂点亮另一个灵魂的事，里面混杂了很多对应试教育的观点，整体很温暖。
生命充满了伤痛也充满了美好，这是能量守恒定律。一个人是活在阳光中还是活在阴暗中取决于你面向阳光还是面向阴暗。简单的说是多米诺骨牌的第一块，往北倒还是往南倒，开头决定结尾。
影片质量还可以，不过金东辉看不出哪帅，标准的韩国脸，青春痘太多了，我觉得还挺丑的。根据自己学习数学时的亲身体会+看着两个儿子学习数学时的经历，我相信所有牛X的理科男，首先都是建立在有天份的基础上+再有后天的努力才成功的，这门科学决不是光靠后天努力和所谓的勇气就能成功的。我给4星7.2分！
这个故事让人背后发凉，已经不是屠龙少年变恶龙了，这是赤裸裸的人间铁律，可惜后面刚渐入佳境的时候就结束了！只是抛出问题，一种宿命感，少了一些戏剧性！可惜啊，这么好的故事。
大叔的从阴冷残暴的性格突然变成阴冷温情的路线，还有点不适应，哈哈，崔大叔真是个宝啊，戏真好！！！饱经沧桑的高智商，有时候就是不快乐的源泉，与这个现实世界格格不入，苦闷、纠结。数学家的伟大，是流芳百世、千世、万世的。
后期一点点不是太给力。不过已经很好了。该有的笑点和反转都有
不能忍受就参与其中，时间久了也就习以为常了
巴赫无伴奏大提琴组曲第一首yyds！喜欢巴赫的人果然数学都好，除了我……
而主角，主角只要选错一步就是万丈深渊，问题不是他这个阶层能解决的。
前半段很棒，还有崔岷植。后半段进入熟悉的捧一踩一，简直拉垮。
和政治挂钩让人很不适，充满了刻意的味道，为什么不能纯粹一点，只讲数学。个别细节处理也不是很自然，女演员表现比较尴尬。
还行吧，就是感觉剧情有点拖拉就是，一直想让人快进的感觉，后面有被燃到，前面铺垫的时间有点长了，导演如果再精简点，更突然数学上的造诣，会更好 。
“不可能从错误的问题中得出正确的答案”
其实还可以，非常害怕结尾来一句根据真实事件改编
男主一人靠演技撑起全片着实不容易了
革命不彻底就是这揍性。
有屠龙之志的少年最后还是成为了那条恶龙，想起集中营里管理犯人的工头…最大的恶龙竟然是参选的议员…
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